James Gandolfini
Movie Review: The Many Saints of Newark
3.5 stars out of 5I felt I owed it to David Chase to see this film in a theater. Way back, my coworker/friend Mona mentioned an upcoming HBO show, The Sopranos, that one of her fellow actors had scored a big part in. I thought it was maybe about opera singers. My cousin Ilene was […]
Movie Review: The Drop
3 stars out of 5 I was at the movies when James Gandolfini died. I remember driving back with my buddy Sean, looking at my phone, and seeing everyone writing to me on Facebook or texting, “Dude, where’s your R.I.P.?” So that was real sad. Especially with the Jersey connection. Still, now that more than […]
Movie Review: Not Fade Away
3 stars out of 5 OK, David Chase, you’ve gotten the veiled autobiography out of your system. Can we maybe get a Sopranos movie now? With Not Fade Away, he was partially there, anyway. You’ve got James Gandolfini playing, well, Tony Soprano if he worked at Pep Boys. Silvio is the film’s music supervisor. Eugene […]
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